A Consequence of Cesarean Delivery: First-Trimester Cesarean Scar Pregnancy

Abstract

Cesarean scar pregnancy (CSP) is a serious, iatrogenic and late consequence of a previous cesarean delivery (CD), which may result in clinical complications throughout all three trimesters of the pregnancy when unrecognized or untreated. Its rate of occurrence parallels the number of CDs. If untreated it may progress and result in a live offspring; however, it is the main cause of morbidly adherent placentae in the late second and in the third trimesters of the pregnancy.